Pi

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Call Number: DVD Drama Pi
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Digitally mastered, Dolby surround.
Includes Darren Aronofsky's and Sean Gullette's commentary on secondary audio tracks.
Special features include: four scenes that were omitted from the theatrical release ; two theatrical trailers ; a behind the scenes montage ; a musical video ; cast and crew biographies ; scene selection ; production notes.
Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Samia Shoaib, Pamela Hart, Ajay Naidu, Joanne Gordon, Stephen Pearlman.
A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market.
DVD; widescreen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

What a phony, steaming pile of excrement!!!! submitted by Tassos on March 14, 2021, 1:40pm It is very rare to find a decent, honest movie about Math or Science, and this one SURE is NOT one of them.

WHat a steaming pile of excrement!

THis is the kind of movies made by clueless non-mathematicians about mathematics. I bet they had some 'math advisor', but they overruled him or her every step of the way.

WHat a lame, pretentious so-called movie.

Look at the 'approximation" of pi mentioned here. I tried it, and it is a very poor approximation, the 238/748 pr whatever nonsense they spouted. You can get the same or better accuracy by just calculating 22/7 (YES!) a result quite close to pi, which was known by the Greeks 2,000-2,500 years ago.

Oh, and they made it in pretentious, colorless B&W to pretend this is a serious movie

And what did the dumb, math illiterate critics do? They were afraid of blundering, so they gave it the 'golden mediocrity" 3 stars.

I give it 2 thumbs down. It is a RIDICULOUS movie.

Platonic Number Love submitted by tarascon on May 6, 2023, 11:48am This film is the love child of Eraserhead and Kabbalah.

An interesting discursion on the nature of number, mysticism, and madness…
As Max says: It’s all in the syntax.